Richmond withholds full spending data, seeks $5,732 fee for public records // Virginia health department redacted details of billing error that affects medicine access for HIV/AIDS patients

Years without budgets, audits or regular financial reports have left the tiny town of Tangier, in the middle of Chesapeake Bay, with unpaid bills and an uncertain future, a state-commissioned report says. The town cannot reliably determine cash on hand or its financial reserves, a report to the Commission on Local Government found. The report said that the town hasn’t fully documented money it is owed and money it owes.

While the School Board didn’t vote to approve it, Loudoun County Public Schools must pay the $659,000 legal bill of former Superintendent Scott A. Ziegler. Loudoun Circuit Court Judge James P. Fisher ruled April 2 in favor of Gentry Locke Rakes & Moore, the law firm that represented Ziegler after he was indicted by a special grand jury in 2022. … Fisher said the board knew Ziegler had chosen to Gentry Locke to represent him, and noted LCPS Chief Financial Officer Sharon V. Willoughby signed the representation contract after receiving approval from then-school division counsel Robert Falconi. … Board Vice Chair Anne P. Donohue, who took office in 2024, sat with attorneys representing the board during the civil trial. Donohue, who is an attorney herself, said afterward that she was disappointed in Fisher’s ruling. “I believe the law is very clear that the School Board cannot approve a contract for services in a closed session without a vote in an open session,” she said.

Connecticut lawmakers are considering a bill that would exempt all course syllabi at the state colleges and universities, from requests for public viewing under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). House Bill No. 5550, proposed in March, denies any student or member of the public access to course syllabi created by faculty at public colleges and universities. Syllabi would also no longer be stored on university computers, servers, or storage systems.